Favorite Short Stories

[Traianus]

I find myself reading more and more of these lately. Here's a couple of my favorites:

The Captain's Daughter - Pushkin
The Aleph - Borges
The Bet - Chekhov

What are some of yours?

 

[Lot]

Call of Cthulhu - H. P. Lovecraft
Rats in the Walls - H. P. Lovecraft
And pretty much any story written by Jennifer Spiegel

 

[cghhmnrtt]

The Shot - Pushkin
Fatalist - Lermantov
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Poe
The Angel of the Odd - Poe
A Tell-Tale Heart - Poe
Harrison Bergeron - Vonnegut
The Crawling Chaos - Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu - Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror - Lovecraft
The Monkey's Paw - Jacobs

 

[Traianus]

I haven't read any Lovecraft yet. I'll definitely check some of his stuff out.

 

[skip]

A Perfect Day For Bananafish - Salinger

 

[polar]

A Perfect Day For Bananafish - Salinger

Yeeeeaaaaaah I just finished Nine Stories. (: I especially loved Uncle Wiggily, The Laughing Man, and Teddy.

 

[skip]

Yeeeeaaaaaah I just finished Nine Stories. (: I especially loved Uncle Wiggily, The Laughing Man, and Teddy.

Probably my favorite book of all time.

 

[MichiganJFrog]

Wig Time, by Alice Munro.

River of Toys. I forget the author's name.

 

[Manic]

A Rose for Emily - Faulkner
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Hemmingway
Hills Like White Elephants - Hemmingway
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher - Poe

 

[Traianus]

The Most Dangerous Game - Richard Connell

 

[Wasp]

The Road Virus Heads North -Stephen King
The Lottery- Shirley Jackson
We Ate the Children Last-Yann Martel

 

[Trebuchet]

The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue - John Scalzi (up for a Hugo this year)

Medic - James White (early story in the Sector General series)

The Seventh Voyage of Ijon Tichy - Stanislaw Lem

Children's Story - James Clavell

 

[warryer]

I've always enjoyed science-fiction. So here is "The Last Question" by Asimov

 

[Polaris]

Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

Tristan - Thomas Mann

About this Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (essay collection) - Barry Lopez

Various essays by Søren Kierkegaard

I'm sure there are many more, but these seem to stand out for whatever reason.

 

[Oedipus]

I haven't read many at all but I remember liking Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman.

 

[addictedartist]

The Chemical Marriage

 

[Audentia]

So many good ones! Hmm

A fable by mark twain
Three questions by Leo tolstoy
Madeline Ludwig bemelmans
The velveteen rabbit by Margery williams
a christmas memory by Truman capote
The book of job the bible
Ferdenand the bull Munro leaf